Wow it’s been a long time since I’ve blogged and I apologize for that. There’s just been mayhem all over the place, with English lessons, ministry, painting and so much more. There’s so many emotions rolling through me as I realize how short my time is left here in Albania. I feel happiness and excitement because I’ll be coming home in two weeks. I’ll be seeing my family, many of which that I haven’t seen in 9 months (exceptions being my parents). I am ready to experience American life again and see my friends and laugh and reminisce with them our lives. I’m ready to start school and finished degree I started so long ago. I realize I wasn’t ready then but I believe I am now because God has spoken that into my life.
And yet I feel sadness and anxiety about leaving as well. Albania has been one of my favorite countries that had people who were willing to go above and beyond for all of us. The kids are going to be the hardest to say goodbye because they’ve taught me so much about the purity of Jesus Christ. The wonder and joy they hold when they hear about Him is so beautiful. My goal is that I’ll always be as thirsty as they are to hear to about Jesus. It is said that Jesus is living water. Drink from him and you shall never be thirsty, but I look at that saying a little differently. I want to be thirsty, I want to learn more and drink more of his Word. There’s this beautiful fourteen year old girl named Angela, who is simply one of my favorite people in the world. She a sassy slip of a girl who holds an incredible thirst for Jesus. Her thirst is endless and she constantly asks more and more questions about who God is and about his heart. Just looking at her, you can feel the spirit of God radiating through her. She has a beautiful personality, full of life, laughter, and love. She honestly is an inspiration to all who meet her because I want to be more and more like her always. I always want to learn more about God, to constantly be thirsty to learn more about God and his heart. I want to grow in my relationship with him and feel his presence and let everyone else feel his presence around me everyday. Thank you Angela for teaching me something so profound and for loving everyone unconditionally without reservation.
Ask yourself are you thirsty? Because I know I am and I hope y’all are too because His waters are endless and eternal just reach for them because then finally your thirst will be quenched and you’ll want more and more water.
